Blog - Page 27

The corporate server offering has always been controversial and problematic both within Codename One & for the customers who bought that service. We struggled a lot with trying to get it just right but with every installation we ran into a painful reminder of exactly why we chose to use the cloud. After discussing this with our existing corporate customers we came to the conclusion that we need something better that would still address the requirement of offline building.

It's been a remarkably busy week with so many big announcements and it's shaping up to be a very busy month... We wanted to release a new plugin update this week but due to some external pressure we will update the plugin next week and keep this Friday update only to the libraries.

One of my pet peeves when we switched to github was that email notifications never worked for me. For most repositories I had to setup my own account just to get emails. I'm guessing that this is a common problem for those of us who are used to emails notifying us of changes.

Debugging Codename One apps on iOS devices has been documented well with a video for years, we didn't spend too much time outlining the Android counterpart mostly because we didn't really use it as much and it was far simpler.

Bluetooth is one of those specs that makes me take a step back... It's nuanced, complex and multi-layered. That isn't necessarily bad, it solves a remarkably hard problem. Unfortunately when people say the words "bluetooth support" it's rare to find two people who actually mean the same thing!

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. It has over eighteen thousand libraries and can help you scale your projects elegantly. Cocoapods can be used in your Codename One project to include native iOS libraries without having to go through the hassle of bundling the actual library into your project. Rather than bundling .h and .a files in your ios/native directory, you can specify which "pods" your app uses via the ios.pods build hint. (There are other build hints also if you need more advanced features).

Woke up this morning to the amazing news of Google winning against Oracle on the issue of fair use! This is great news for everyone as it effectively makes "clean room implementation" legal. This solidifies Java's status as "open" showing that even its owner has limitations on their power.

Starting with the new version of the NetBeans plugin we will have the new settings/preferences UI which we introduced in the IntelliJ/IDEA plugin. Currently this will be in addition to the main preferences but as we move forward we will only add features to the new settings UI.

We were stuck on an "old" version of xcode in the build servers. This hasn't been a big deal for most features but in some cases we are running into issues e.g. in using the full capabilities of the new iPad or 3d touch. The reason for this is Apples backwards compatibility policy.